Evaluation of a genetic representation for outline shapes

Lapok, P.; Lawson, A.; Paechter, B.

Abstract

This work in progress focuses on the evaluation of a genetic representation for outline shapes for planar mechanical levers which addresses the first stage of the complex real-world problem of modelling and evolving planar mechanical lever systems. The representation defines the genotype and the phenotype mapping onto a lever geometry. As a proof of concept, the representation was evaluated using an evolutionary algorithm with simplified fitness function to investigate its capability to facilitate search space coverage, work with evolutionary operators; and produce shapes with certain lever characteristics, such as edges and curves.

Citation

Lapok, P., Lawson, A., & Paechter, B. (2017, July). Evaluation of a genetic representation for outline shapes. Presented at Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion on - GECCO '17

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion on - GECCO '17
• Start Date: Jul 15, 2017
• End Date: Jul 19, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Apr 16, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Jul 15, 2017
• Publication Date: Jul 15, 2017
• Deposit Date: Apr 20, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 20, 2018
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 1419-1422
• Book Title: GECCO '17 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion
• ISBN: 9781450349390
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3067695.3082501
• Keywords: Shape Representation; Genetic Representation; Evolutionary Algorithm; Mechanical Lever Systems; Complex Systems
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/946829
• Contract Date: Apr 20, 2018